"I really don't know much about that... but now that I think about it, no wonder!"
This was Natsuki Minamiya's first time learning that Itogami Island's prominent families were all descendants who had inherited Cain's Holy Annihilation power.
Although even the island's secret records contained nothing about this, Natsuki Minamiya immediately believed Elysia.
If that was the case, then many things she had failed to understand before now made perfect sense...
"That's why, Natsuki. The agreement you reached with those Itogami Island bureaucrats was nothing more than them using you. The Prison Barrier... exists only to keep this altar stable and prevent anything from going wrong."
"You were the only fool who thought you could change the conflict between humans and demons..."
The reason Natsuki Minamiya had reached an agreement with the people of the Itogami Island Management Corporation, forming a mutually supportive relationship, was simply because those people had used her.
Some of them truly did want to establish a proper Demon Sanctuary where humans and demons could coexist peacefully. But those were merely the people at the bottom. The ones truly in charge had never given up on Holy Annihilation.
As long as they activated Holy Annihilation, the whole world would be in their hands.
Although Itogami Island's major families held considerable influence, that influence was limited to Itogami Island alone. Compared to other powers... they were nothing. But if they could use Holy Annihilation... everything would be different.
That was where those prominent Itogami Island families got their confidence.
Thus, the relatively good relationship between humans and demons on Itogami Island was merely one part of the ritual's requirements.
It was not because they sincerely wished, as Natsuki Minamiya did, for the two sides to coexist peacefully.
Even the current peaceful coexistence was only relative.
Still, to